9644, Ficus saxophila 31m, A tall and widely spread- 
ing tree along the River; berk smooth, mottled; 
very freely bleeding with a viscid milky fluid; branchlets 
slender, half drooping; leaves spreading from the suberect 
green petioles, subcoriaceous, lucid dark green above, much 
duller beneath, the nerves greenish white: figs sessile, 
solitary of in pairs from the leaf axils globose, 1/3 inch 
in diameter, yellowish green but apparently turning reddish 
when fully mature; flowers brown; blades a trifle conduplicate 
on the upper surface, with recurved tips; wood pale white, 
conspicuously ringed; “Salitarhan, * Dumaguete, Warech, 1908, 
9645, Zanonia philippinensis err, Liana like climbers 
upon lefty treas along the River; stems hanging, 
fully 1 ineh thick, flexible, smooth and brown (the thin 
brown bark easily peeling from the dark green outer surface 
of the soft porous greenish wood); leaves coriaceous, dull 
green above, paler beneath, very smooth on both sides, des 
cendingly recurved; inflorescence pendulous from the stem 
and larger branches, elongate paniculate, 6 inches to 2 feet 
long, yellowish green; flowers caducous, et first greenieh 
but soon turning yellow; Dumaguete, March, 1906, 
9646, Gmelins villosa blm, Spresding 3 to 5 meter 
high shrub, overhanging the stream banks of the : 
River; stems branched from near the base, the branches and 
pranchlets provided with rigid sharp 1 inch long spines; 
bark smooth, brown, thin; wood very tough; leaves dull green, 
gubdescending, yellowish green beneath, flexible, rather 
tough; buds covered with brown hairs; flowers odorless, yel- 
low, fruits ellipsoid, hard, green, 1-seeded; *? alungund, * 
Dumaguete, areh, 1908, 
‘ 9647, Jodes philippinensis Merr, Sprawling over 
shtubberfies ot the River and also upon ridges; 
the ultimste branches very slender snd drooping, wiry, green- 
ish; leaves flat, descending, submembranous, dull green and 
harsh on the upper side, soft pubescent beneath; inflorescence 
erect; flowers light creamy white; the reflexed periasnth 
segments greenish; ovary and style yellowish; stigma whit- 
ish; eteme 1/2 inch thick, round flexible; old berk smooth, 
yellow, just benesth the skin green, the inner portion white, 
easily peeling; wood rather herd, porous, with prominent 
white radiel merkings which prutmr protrude just enough to 
make the outside surface of the wood ridged; Dumaguete, 
March, 1908, : 
9648,  Lygodium circinnatum (Burm,) Swtz, Climbing 
by twining stems which are very wiry, @emooth and hard; 
leeflets dark green, gubmembranous, the individual segments 
recurved; "“Nito;* the stems are used in weaving hat erowns, 
Dumaguete, March, 1908, 
9649, Haleonia negrosensis Hlm,, nm. Sp. Srect tree, 
10 meteme high, on ridge at 2500 feet: trunk 1 1/2 feet in 
diameter; bark grayish, mottled, roughened with flat xun 
lenticels, thick, minutely checked longitudinally, 
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